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• n  the practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor

• Both of us were fundamentally American actors, with the qualities and virtues that characterize American actors: irreverence, playing on the other's flaws for fun, one-upmanship .
• But now that Abraham is complete, he feels writing it has made him a better Jew, allowing him to strip away layers of Abrahamic one-upmanship and recover an "intimacy with the .
• Churches number in the tens of thousands here, and are competing so intensely for members that pastors feel pressured to engage in a kind of one-upmanship: sending congregants on .

News & Articles

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• Top Story
  Please login to view the requested resource. HARRISONBURG — The Bridgewater Reds have mastered the game of one-upmanship.
  June 13, 2013 - The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record
• Big personalities come into play as trial commences
  Today’s opening of the blockbuster trial of Southie gangster James “Whitey” Bulger pits tireless prosecutors against a steadfast defense team that is sure to produce fireworks all summer long. Legal experts predict jurors will be sent on a wild ride through the 83-year-old mobster’s brutal past packed with cunning and courtroom one-upmanship.
  June 12, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• Ed Begley Jr in Washington Post
  While Begley calls the rivalry a "a friendly, humorous one-upmanship," he admits there are parts of the competition that are quite serious.
• Bob Shacochis in Youngstown Vindicator
  Shacochis calls it "a kind of one-upmanship on the way everyone else travels - museums bad, slums good; solitude good, companions bad; airlines bad, railways good. It is a code and he's very strict about it, and sometimes it seems so strict that...
• Chris Connolly in Real Footy
  My response to that is never put your personal feelings ahead of the team, but on the same front support your teammate and don't accept any type of one-upmanship,Connolly said.